The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-26
COMMENT AND OPINION.


That is all. It won't hurt anybody but the
pieces.-New York Mail and Express.
HENRY GEORGE and his Anti-poverty party
should move to Indiana. That State is dead
broke. and any effort his part to raise the
wind would meet with hearty co-operation.-Bal.
timore American.
THE interstate railroad law that the people
would really like to see enacted is that will
the just responsibility of their misconduct.
New York Tribune.
IT is barely possible that the Presidents APP
parent Indifference about the Pacific railroad
investigation had some effect in throwing Mr..
C. P. Huntington into his recent spas NJ of angry
virtue.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
IF the nomination to be m ade this year.
Mr.. Blaine would probably be nominated. But
at the same time we also believe that it would
be the most hazardous nomination the Repub-
licans could make. Dayton Journal
THE Republican is so clearly and pre- emf
nently the American party that the political
godfathers and godmothers of Philadelphia
have surely been guilty of misnomer IN the mat
ter of the last new party.-Chicago Inter,
Ocean.
DR. McGLYNN declares that 'poverty is
disease" If so, it certainly cannot be cured bv
any tru mp panaGsa The old-fashi n,
perance-is better than political patent med
cines.-New York World
THE Indianapolis Sentinel made itself the
laughing stock Of the country by its silly state
ment that it knew of plot to assassiuate Mr.
Cleveland during his Western tour. He may be
killed with kindness crushed with courtesy.
but nothing worse will happen
Tribune.
SINCE the prohibitory law went into force in
Iowa it is said the number of saloons in Bur-
lington has nearly doubled. That sounds
strange but there are always strange stories
coming from prohibition States. If prohibition
does not diminish drinking. it undoub tedly in,
creases lying.-Chicaeo Journal.
DR.. MoGLYNN has evidently travelled some
distance on the road that leads to Ineersolism
xrha ho hcd loa hat if
beyond his capacity ito tell precisely the de-
erees of the Farenheit thermometer in the king.
dom of hell and added that he must take card
not to make hell too comfortable" And vel
DR.. McGlynn claims to be as good Catholic as
the Pope.-National Republican
NOTHING short of war will ever compel eitbes
city or country real estate owners to submit to
the George scheme. The Vanderbilts and
Goulds, whose fortunes are invested in stocks
bonds, costly buildings. ETC.. might possibly b&
brought TO favor the single land tax. but out
side this class Georgesm IL suited only To those
who never saved anything. never owned any
thing. and never expect to do either.-Chicago
Tribune
Now, until the Civil-servce Commissioners
feel assured that they have done al that be
done at the appointment end of the line. it seems
to us that it would be better for them continue
their exertions there. and not undertake opera
tions at the other. discharge. end of the line.
We say this for the reason that while we believe
that the reform is not only bound to stay, but to
make progi ess we have a strong realizing sense
of the many obstacles that have vet to be over
come, and the necessity the friends OF reform are
under of doing solid and thorough work N
everything that they attempt-Boston Herald.
WE vent our indignation a semi-bankrupS
corporation like that in Illinois, which In 1T
desire to economic buried 80 many people In.
to eternity; yet there are wealthy corporatlont
paying big dividends. and with a surplus II
cash which can be counted by millions. inexs
cusably pursuing equally as stingy and cheese
pairing a policy. Where can the people look
for redress so long coroners accept passeG
from railroad companies, State legislators place
themselves under similar obligations and United
States Sen ators are either the presidents OF rail
road companies or their paid attorneys.-Phil
adelphia Record
IT is unquestionably true that Henry George
has, by turning mis- back on the Socialists. placed
himself in much more favorable attitude before
the people at large Whether his action is due
to growing conviction that the cornerstone Of
a new labor party must be as free possibls
from that kind of "conglomerate, in order to be
acceptable to the masses OF workingmen,
whether il is due to n growing conviction that
socialism is evil that it is but thepolywog of
archism, the Tribune does not undertake to say.
If the former it is creditable to his sagacity; it
the latter, it is creditabe his intelligence and
patriotism. Detroit Tribune
IN this scheme of new party there is just
one rational and commendable proposition: the
restriction of immigration. That idea Is not the
property of the hebetudinous cranks who have
issued these plans and specifications of new
party that evidently is designed by the project
ora to be collection of most OF the parties,
sects. and societies of lunatics, fanatics ano
ounces extant That idea has been taken oy ths
projectors from rational men who have no moro
belief in friendship for any OF the other con.
tents of the scheme than they have for the raw
ings of the socialist lunatics. or the theology
of the Virginia doctor of divinity, who declarea
that 1.-The sun do moveh-Chicago Times.
THE friends of the South look to the young
men for regeneration, and yet the situation Is
complicated by a peculiarly unfortunate circum-
stance Southern boy that was six years old
in 1860. allowed to run the streets, boss the
slaves aud do anything bur study 1t can be
stated as a general proposition that the South
ern born men in the prime of life in the South
to. day. that is from 30 10 80 3S--are unedu-
Gated. man with gentle blood in his veins and
q patch of weeds in his head. so speak, is no
ornament to any community aud the chances
are that he will be "a danger to it. If one would
understand the full application of this fact let
him over the list of the Southern legisla
lures and note the ages of the members that
make the most trouble. -Springfeld Republican.